Info-Chunk Objects as New Behavior Representation for System-based Model of Product

Abstract

Requirement Functional Logical Physical (RFLP) structure has emerged as one of the prominent approaches for modeling the multidisciplinary products. Information Content (IC) provides effective interaction between the human and multidisciplinary product model. Though it controls the RFLP level by the Multilevel Abstraction based Self-Adaptive Definition (MAAD) structure, it needs to be further enhanced in terms of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), multidisciplinary product behavior representation and structured processing of interrelated engineering objects to obtain coordinated decisions. Therefore, this paper introduces the Object-Oriented Principle (OOP) concepts in the IC for behaviors representation of the multidisciplinary product where Info-Chunk is considered as an object. Here, Behavior Info-Chunk (BiC) and Context Info-Chunk (CxiC) objects are proposed in the MAAD structure to model the behavior of the multidisciplinary product. Further, the concepts of Info-Chunk objects are extended to Intelligent Property (IP) that uses Initiative Behavior Context and Action (IBCA) structure to handle the RFLP structure. Based on the communication between the MAAD and RFLP structure, an API (Application Programming Interface) called "InfoChunkLib" is proposed. It can generate the graphs to represent the behaviors of a multidisciplinary product model. The API is handled by the information content to represent the behavior information and store the results in a database.